> On Aug 12, 2016, at 11:15 AM, Fred Cisin <ci...@xenosoft.com> wrote: > > On Fri, 12 Aug 2016, Mazzini Alessandro wrote: >> It was not enough to have mishandled vms, and killed palm. Now they want to >> destroy also what's left of SGI ? >> Better I don't say what I'm really thinking... > > "All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for men of good conscience to remain > silent." > > > Apollo, DEC, Compaq, Ericsson, Palm, . . . > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_acquisitions_by_Hewlett-Packard > > > If HP and Microsoft merged, would it put an end to computers?
No, but it might put an end to the resulting company. Note that HP didn't acquire DEC, or Palm; both had been absorbed by other companies well before HP swooped in to grab those. For example, I don't think anything was left of Palm long before HP bought up the remnants of 3Com. paul